Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs Norman Urmy, aka Superman, plays to the crowd as he is introduced by “Alex Trebek,” Joel Lee, Executive Director of Medical Center Communications, at the Jeopardy-themed kick-off event for the Community Giving Campaign. (photo by Dana Johnson)

Community Giving campaign kicks off with superhero show

9/08/2000 - Robin the Boy Wonder, Mark Penkhus, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of VUH, whispers an answer to Batman, Dean John E. Chapman of the School of Medicine, during the superhero Jeopardy game show. (photo by Dana Johnson)

Heroes in Jeopardy was the theme for the kick-off event of VUMCs Community Giving Campaign, held the last week in August.

The superhero-studded event marked the beginning of the annual VUMC campaign, this year built around the slogan Reaching Out to Others.

To get the message of giving across, Joel Lee, executive director of Communications, hosted a parody of the quiz show Jeopardy in which the contestants were in full costume and supplying questions for the Jeopardy answers: Batman, Dr. John E. Chapman, dean of the school of Medicine; Wonder Woman, Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., R.N., dean of the school of Nursing; Superman, Norman B. Urmy, executive vice president for Clinical Affairs; Robin, the Boy Wonder, Mark Penkhus, executive director and chief executive officer, Vanderbilt Hospital; Xena, the Warrior Princess, Sally Allen, manager of Patient Care/Nutrition Service Department; and Spiderman, Melvin Fitzgerald, office assistant, Biochemistry Department.